Books and Articles

Hidden Faces of the Soul: The Secrets of Mind-Body Healing

Hidden Faces Of The Soul combines the ancient teaching of the Kabbalah with modern psychology to give you powerful insights that will change your life! Using the timeless wisdom of the mystical teachings of the Kabbalah, you will learn to recognize the ten faces of the soul: unity, wisdom, understanding, love, strength, compassion, dominion, receptivity, stability, faith. You will find the inspiration, insight, and inner peace you need to achieve healthier relationships, a more successful career, financial success, and more!

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Transforming the Inner and Outer Family: Humanistic and Spiritual Approaches to Mind/ Body Systems Therapy

In 1988, Dr. Sheldon Kramer co-taught a graduate class with Virginia Satir, the renowned family therapy pioneer. The class focused on healing and the sacred dimensions of relationships. Haworth Press published Transforming the Inner and Outer Family: Humanistic and Spiritual Approaches to Mind/ Body Systems Therapy, a book Kramer wrote which grew out of that course and subsequent conversations Kramer had with Satir before she died in 1989.

Kramer says his new book is about "creating healthy, nurturing relationships with yourself and others including your family." He adds the book is designed for therapists who want to learn Kramer's short-term, transformative therapy model and for non-therapists who want to understand how a therapist engages in therapeutic healing. A self-help section provides mind/body tools for use in relationships.

Woven throughout the book are conversations between Satir and Kramer on healing relationships. A main thrust of the book is how to utilize relationships to experience spiritual dimensions of love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, patience and humility.

Read an interview with Dr. Kramer about the book.

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The Tao of Creating Sacred Relationships: A Tribute to the Life and Work of Virginia Satir

In "Journal of Couples Therapy, Volume 6, Number 3/4, 1996, pgs. 95 - 101"

This article articulates the major premises of Sheldon Z. Kramer's book, Transforming the Inner and Outer Family: Humanistic and Spiritual Approaches to the Mind-Body Systems Therapy (The Haworth Press, Inc., 1995). This overview briefly introduces and explains the power of psychotherapy, meditation and the use of the body, creating congruent communications, working with incongruence in couples and bridging the inner and outer couple.

Modern Psychology & Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions

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Family Structure of Interpersonal Relationships in the Eating Disorders

Chapter in "The Eating Disorders: Medical and Psychological Bases of Diagnosis and Treatment" 

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Transforming Your Relationships - Beginning Steps

In Self Help Magazine.

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Transforming Your Relationships - Relaxing Yourself

In Self Help Magazine.

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